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This is what the key Aston Villa fansites and bloggers have been saying after the draw against Barnsley. Warts and all, unedited and spoken from the heart.

All Things Claret And Blue

Glen Bennett We had so many opportunities to score last night it is ridiculous. The midfielders could not pass the ball ten yards. Kept giving it away. Jedinak is a liability. Love to see his pass percentage rate. Elphick the same. He needs to give his head a wobble.

Headers miss timed clearances slapped at. The game was crying out for someone to get the ball down and play. Tish was ok.

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I think that people just slate Westwood for the sake of it. No way was that defeat his fault. You could see the panic setting in after 80 minutes. Too many players giving stupid fouls away putting pressure on us.

Jazz Thethy: At this rate it looks like it's going to be for more than "just one season". Still stand by my thoughts that we will go back up next season

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Tony Willis: Anyone that wants RDM out now go and see a shrink , the team are getting used to how RDM wants them to play we are not losing and the draws will soon turn into wins , keep the faith and back him.

Aston Villa manager Roberto Di Matteo during the match at Bristol City

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Rich White At this stage of the season to be 17th after the investment in the summer is completely unacceptable. I had a feeling RDM was the wrong man for the job, I'm gutted to think I'm was right about it, as it points to a long, hard awful season. Sacked by the weekend I reckon. He's made a right cock up of it.

Andy Dorrington It's a load of rubbish. Any Villa fan who's backing RDM after that need to realise by the time he wins a game we'll be in league one. Let's have it right make the change now, his tactics are woeful. 10 points dropped for a side looking for promotion any manager would be sacked. END OF.

Thomas Hardwick Late goals are getting on my nerves but today but why we need Gestede on for injured adomah why not bring baker on and keep them out, fed up of draws now, needs sorting out!!! Think sherwood could even do better in this league and support from owner but I trust rdm, Clarke and bond should be able to sort it with experience

Pride Of The Midlands

David Lumb definitely psychological. For some reason they panic & change their approach every time we reach the closing stages of a game. what's interesting is when the opposition does get the equaliser, we then starting playing again & no longer look vulnerable.

Brendan Gillespie RDM picks the team and buys the players he has to go end of story, as he has shown he is clueless with his substitutions and is as emotional as worzel gummage getting wet in a field

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Ian Taylor

Vital Villa

PiperUK: This isn't anything to do with ability. This is psychological and it's the manager's job to sort it out.

Holte Ende 2160: Players are more responsible than RDM for this. Almost every villa fan saw the team sheet before the game and agreed with it. We play well, certainly well enough to win the game, and get ourselves ahead. Players miss further opportunities to score and then concede again at the end.

I don't believe anyone can argue with the team selection from start to finish, and so blaming RDM's tactics on this result is not right. The players have to stand up, fight and grind out a victory. Getting rid of RDM after 10/11 games will not solve anything.

We have sacked manager after manager for 6 years and look where it has got us. If in another 10 games time then nothing changes, I'll happily discuss RDM's suitability for the role. Until then, and whilst we are still playing well in most games, I think it is stupid and a sad sad sign of how the game has become to consider getting rid.

SherlockGT: I thought we brought in the likes of elphick and jedinak to add some composure to the team when we are under pressure. Elphicks had 1 good game and jedinak hasn't had 1. Petrov would have been a better bet.

Simon Leach, Chairman, Aston Villa Lions Club, Chicago

So, that assessment point number 1 has arrived. i said I would wait 10 games until I could make any informed decision on how this season will pan out, and sadly, as it looks today, we are NOT going straight back up.

Yes we have been close to taking a lot more points than we have in the bag today, and a little bit of extra resolve could have seen us challenging the top guys, but the reality is we still have a disease at the club that is preventing us from moving forward.

I'm not going to start banging my fist and demanding RDM be sacked, but the Doc has to be seriously considering what he let himself in for and whether he has to wield the axe to turn this around.

I'm going to check back in in 5 games and see if we have learnt to see out games, but with two derby's in that period, we had better start growing some balls or we will be the laughing stock of the midlands.